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Soybean [Glycine max. (L.) Merr] is one of the most important legumes in the world. However, soybean varieties are sensitive to flooding stress and their seed yields are substantially reduced in response to the flooding stress. 192 soybean germplasm collection was screened to identify flooding tolerant germplasm at an early vegetative growth stage (V1). Soybean plants at V1 stage were waterlogged for 4 to 10 days. To evaluate flooding tolerance, survival rate were investigated as a time dependent manner. Jangbaegkong, Danbaegkong, Sowonkongkong, So cheong2 and Suwon269 showed flooding tolerance, while Shillog, T201, T181, NTS1116 and HP-963 showed flooding sensitivity. We also investigated effects of flooding stress on soybean morphology. The adventitious root development was greatly increased in flooding tolera nt plants compared to it in flooding sensitive plants. In addition, root length and root number were analyzed. The significant reduction of root length and root number was observed in flooding sensitive plants. Thus, these results indicate that the morphological changes in roots are important for acclimation to flooding stress. Taken together, the relationship between the morphological changes in the roots and flooding tolerance may be useful in selecting a flooding tolerant soybean germplasm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starch is the most important carbohydrate in the human and animal diets and it also has numerous industrial applications. Starch is widely used as a key material for processed foods such as bread, pancakes, cereals, noodles, pasta, porridge and tortilla. Increasing the starch content in food crops is one of the important targets for crop breeding. We used a starch-iodine test to identify varieties with high starch content in 2354 soybean germplasm collection and found a total of 126 germplasm that showed a strongly positive reaction. We quantified starch content from highly stained 7 soybean accessions by standard method (glucose-oxidase). As results, starch contents of 7 soybean germplasm were 2.81∼4.55%, whereas the weakly stained controls showed low starch content with less than 1%. We also measured the contents of protein, fatty acid, water potential and free sugar in 7 soybean germplasm with high starch content. High starch germplasm showed lower protein content, while low starch germplasm showed higher protein content. Our results suggest that the increasing of starch content could affect protein level in soybean seed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]